Happy New Year! 2012 was fun! Here are 26 pictures of my 26th year in 2012! Just a peek into my world beyond the speech room! Captions below! If you care to see the pictures up close, just click on the photo to enlarge it!

Example of AAC modelingI take things for granted these days. I forget easily that I've worked with kids for 35 (gasp) years and have an intuitive sense about things. (Yes, my first teaching job was in 1979, hard to believe!

Did you know that a child’s language skills are a strong predictor of later literacy skills? Children with strong language skills in the preschool and early elementary years tend to have stronger literacy skills later on.

Are you looking for more ways to incorporate the EET into your therapy rooms during Easter time?! I have some activities that I have been doing to help you out!! Don't have an EET kit?! Learn more about it by clicking HERE!

Technology is everywhere, even in therapy sessions. Knowing which apps are top rated can be very beneficial to therapy sessions. Children are all about technology, and finding a way to incorporate technology in therapy sessions can help engage clients.

Rinki Varindani a Speech Language Pathologist(SLP) by profession, introduces readers to the highly rewarding world of Speech therapy and guides readers on how to go about becoming a SLP (Rinki Varindani a Speech Language Pathologist(SLP) by...

I am so excited to announce that my winter EET companion pack is ready!!! It is a 2-in-1!!! This should help you survive the cold winter months! In this pack: Expanding Vocabulary Snowman Game: -Print and laminate a snowman for each student.

When a child who stutters demonstrates the ability to change his speech during a treatment session, it seems obvious that he’d want to use the same strategies to improve speech outside the session as well. Children, especially teenagers, rarely...

This is a good source to use because it is from ASHA, the American Speech Language Hearing Association. The article outlines sevreal reasons why a child may revert in social situations, after seemingly making progress in therapy. One reason offered is techniques are too hard to use in situations outside therapy. A second reason offered is children may think that techniques make them sound weird. Children want to fit in with their peers, not stand out. A third reason offered is the techniques are too costly. The effort the child puts into the technique may outweigh the benefit.

I sat in a popular restaurant chain and watched an 8 year old boy have a major meltdown at his table. His mother cringed as lunch time patrons stared. An irritated couple at a nearby booth got up and moved, but only after glaring at the mother. ...

Are you looking for new and unique apps that work on auditory processing?! A brand new app has just come out!! Pocket SLP (with the help of an SLP Nikki Harty) just released a new app called Processing Pow Wow!

Are you looking for more ways to work on WH questions?! How about more spring themed materials?! Then, this one is for you!! I used a similar format as my WH Question Train Fun pack and created a butterfly themed one!

I have been receiving AMAZING feedback from my say & color activities! I also have been receiving requests to produce a wh- questions version! Well...it is here! Have students read the questions or read it to them.

I have been searching high and low for an organizer to fit my needs for working on context clues. My students are having a hard time identifying HOW they developed their answers. They have a hard time locating the actual clues.

We had a fantastic first day at the 2014 International Toy Fair in New York City. We started outside the show with Laser Peg’s “Pegasaur” and met the designer whose team took 4 weeks to assemble this dinosaur.

Winter Olympics Vocabulary Worksheets These worksheets focus on matching 24 winter Olympics vocabulary words to their definitions. While each worksheet focuses on the same words and definitions, they are presented in ...

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